Milan 7th June 2012 - show 31

Mike outside the San Siro - sadly not there to see Bruce

Milan is Italy's second largest city.

Daft fact - the  aperitivo was actually started by i milanesi. An aperitivo is the Italian version of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Happy Hour’.

The photo above has been taken from Flickr and belongs to maxalbino's photostream

We had a lot of friends at this gig, and boy, they picked a good one!  According to Backstreets when I had a quick look this morning this was Bruce's second longest concert ever.  Looking now I see they seem to have changed this to 'one of the longest of Springsteen's career'

Arguably the longest show was during The River tour.  This from Wikipedia. ' The most famous of the shows on the tour is probably the New Years Eve 1980 one at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. With a set list 38 songs strong, it is one of the longest Springsteen shows of all time and also often regarded as one of the best'


Surely this Milan show is destined to become part of Springsteen folklore.  Definitely an
I-was-there show.

I told Mike after the last tour that next time we would go to Spain, Italy or Sweden. It's well known  that the audiences in all three countries are the best around and Bruce always puts on a great show for them.  Where are we going? Sunderland, Manchester and Paris. Ah well perhaps next tour.

Here is the very long set list.

	Lisbon 03/06/12 Time 00.15 (on 04/06) to 2.40	Milan 07/06/12 Time 08.40 to 11.58
1	We Take Care Of Our Own (30)	We Take Care Of Our Own (31)
2	Wrecking Ball (30)	Wrecking Ball (31)
3	Badlands (24)	Badlands (25)
4	Death To My Home Town (30)	Death To My Hometown (31)
5	My City Of Ruins (30)	My City Of Ruins (31)
6	Spirit In The Night (8)	Spirit In The Night (9)
7	Because The Night (10)	E Street Shuffle (9)
8	No Surrender (6)	Jack Of All Trades (29)
9	She’s The One (12)	Candy’s Room (6)
10	I’m On Fire (2)	Darkness On The Edge Of Town (5)
11	Shackled And Drawn (18)	Johnny 99 (8)
12	Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (30)	Out In The Street (14)
13	The River (8)	No Surrender (7)
14	The Rising (29)	Working On The Highway (7)
15	Lonesome Day (15)	Shackled And Drawn (19)
16	We Are Alive (29)	Waitin’ on a Sunny Day (31)
17	Thunder Road	The Promised Land (25)
18	Born In The USA (9)	The Promise (2)
19	Born To Run (30)	The River (9)
20	Glory Days (4)	The Rising (30)
21	Hungry Heart (6)	Radio Nowhere (4)
22	Dancing In The Dark (30)	We Are Alive (30)
23	Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (30)	Land Of Hope And Dreams (20)
24	Twist And Shout (1)	Rocky Ground (27)
25		Born In The USA (10)
26		Born To Run (31)
27		Cadillac Ranch (2)
28		Hungry Heart (7)
29		Bobby Jean (6)
30		Dancing In The Dark (31)
31		Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (31)
32		Glory Days (5)
33		Twist And Shout (2)

By consensus of opinion among my Bruce buddies this was the highlight of a night of many highlights.